The American Embassy warned Americans to get out while they still could. Once there are no flights / trains / buses out, and no open exit stations, th...
You may not know that Columbus Day (October 10, 2022) has become a contested event in the US. Some of the contestants are actually native people from ...
Brush up your Yiddish. Similarly, after the evening service ushering in a holiday such as Rosh Hashanah, one says either “?ag same’a? (“Happy holiday”...
I like this site, https://www.visualcapitalist.com, which offers economic information in graphic form. For instance, the feature today was a compariso...
The "NextDoor" social network app is a good example. People report everything on it from vaguely suspicious to felony crime. It's all local events. Th...
You can give the workers a few board seats if you want to, I don't care. The thing is, though, the drive for profit for the few--regardless of consequ...
Well done! But this western reader has only so much compassion to go around. It isn't that I don't care enough; it's that I can't care enough. One dea...
Wese well educated philosophers wonder why the idea of us all living in a simulation keeps coming up. Did somebody make a movie about it, or something...
The profits of corporations go to the shareholders (who own the company). The profits of private companies go to the owners--good, bad, or indifferent...
This is true, and in some non-existing workers utopia, people would also satisfy their immediate desires. Absolutely. One way a more reasoned and deli...
I'm impressed! I was surprised to find that Burns' Civil War series was broadcast in 1990, 32 years ago; it doesn't seem like it was that far back. Sh...
Finished watching Ken Burns' "The U.S. and the Holocaust" on Public Broadcasting. It was very well done. Burns' style is very straightforward and the ...
All of the 19th century technologies--photography, telegraph, telephone, electricity, radio, recorded sound, and automobiles became products or servic...
I read the Clark's book derived from the film before I saw it, so it made ore sense to me than it otherwise would have. I had also listened to the sou...
The point I was aiming for was that "better" or "different" technology would have to be self-selected, or it would just be another imposition. The tec...
In honor of her gracious royal majestic QEII, a song about one hell of a funeral -- which I am sure her's will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSl...
One, maybe 'THE' critical question is "In whose hands does control rest?" The looms which the Luddites rejected were imposed upon the hand weavers. Hi...
Really, it's a horrible story. Abraham was being put to the test: would he obey the order to kill his son? He passed the test when he prepared to kill...
My guess is that a lot of the sturm und drang swirling around sexuality, gender, and diversity is absent from most people's lives. The sturm und drang...
Brits, get a grip: It's a cooked banana, not a plot to overthrow the monarchy (though, if cooked bananas would achieve that result, then let the banan...
I'm an essentialist, so I don't think that sexuality is constructed. However, what is possible in terms of expression is determined by society's estab...
No doubt! I read Anna Karenina (long time ago) and liked it; I enjoyed other novels by Melville. Amen. I don't want to abolish the canon of literature...
This is an old joke. Please use fresh material. That might be the top "should have read it / should read it / will never read it" title, at least in A...
A mermaid of color isn't as scientifically inaccurate as thinking there are mermaids at all. The first mermaid was a Syrian goddess, so she was probab...
Societies tend to reproduce themselves and they do that through civil, social, religious, educational, and financial institutions. UK, Germany, France...
I've always lived in the US -- the upper midwest. An argument can be (has been) made that democracy (in the US) was never intended to be very democrat...
That's a thing many people have never gotten. Are you talking about female genital mutilation? Not a gay thing. Who? Gay men? Hey, as a gay man I appr...
I don't know why the politics of identity are as intense in the US as they seem to be. Nor do I know how many people in the US give a rat's ass about ...
Of course I agree that gay people have always existed, but it's also the case that gay people have existed in the form that their society allows and m...
The relationship referenced in the ceramic doesn't have a contemporary equivalent. The younger male in the relationship was post-pubescent, when puber...
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/09/13/multimedia/13xp-bees-4/13xp-bees-4-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp John Chapple, the beekeeper at Bucki...
It's always a big mistake to suppose that emotions won't play a major role. We are not altogether rational animals. To some extent (% varies from esti...
In the broadest definition, sure. But there are large differences in the means employed and the desired end. External conflict may be used to achieve ...
I'm not sure what the thrust of your discussion is. It's a bit incoherent. Liberal schmiberal. There is no rock-solid definition of what a liberal or ...
I wasn't aiming that high. Just this: In school students learn 'how to learn' and start accumulating knowledge about the world. Given curiosity about ...
Some people think that the humanities progress with research adding more and more knowledge. There are marginal gains, but the content has been availa...
Comments